Arthur Gensler Quotes & Sayings

Directing, what little I know, is as much knowing when to step in as when to step out. — Robert Lorenz

It takes an obsessive streak that borders on lunacy to go rummaging around in the past as memoirists are wont to do, particularly a fragmented or incendiary past, in which facts are sparse and stories don't match up. I don't know if memoirists as children are lied to more often as kids or only grow up to resent it more, but it does seem we often come from the ranks of orphans or half-orphans-through-divorce, trying to heal schisms inside ourselves. Like everybody, I suppose, people we loved broke our hearts because only they had access to them, and we broke our own hearts later by following their footsteps and reenacting their mistakes. — Mary Karr

Many storytellers with possibly more potential than Shakespeare, even though I have not read much of him, could not hit much fame because they treated their stories like their wives. Rather than limiting the emotion only to flirting with their stories, they married them, thus limiting their chances of experimenting. — Pawan Mishra

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941. — Gene Tierney

Therefore everything that you enjoy in Christ - as a Christian, as a person who trusts Christ - is owing to the death of Christ. — John Piper

The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds. — Richard Russo

If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Think positive, Act positive. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted. — Alec Ross